An end of year list by NowPublic.com shows how far user-generated content played a role in the big news events of the year. According to its CEO, Len Brody: 2008 not only proved the concept of user-generated news, but also tipped the scales. The pillars of mainstream media, including the Associated Press, BBC, CBS and CNN have all made significant efforts to embrace the new model. Top of the list

Electoral projections site FiveThirtyEight calls it for Obama. Adding up the projected wins with the safe Democrat states, it estimates Barack Obama will get at least 284 electoral votes, going beyond the 270 needed to win. Obama could win a landslide victory, with a total of 353 electoral votes. UPDATE: It’s happened. Barack Obama is 44th president-elected of the USA. A momentous time in the history of the US and

What a difference four years make in the life of a presidential election. As the New York Times has noted, this campaign has been fought, dissected and shared on forms of media that were merely a twinkle in 2004. On election day, there are an overwhelming number of ways to tap into the pulse of voters. Chrys Wu has put together a comprehensive list of sites to follow the results,

An interesting take on the US presidential elections produced by my friend Erica Rowell and Michele Chivu, reminiscence in style of The Washington Post’s OnBeing project